From the Office
Dear Parents,
We hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday with many blessings and lots of time with family. We also hope you received some good information from your child’s teacher during Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Advent is here, and the students in grades ECE, and K-8 will be participating in weekly Advent prayer services on Wednesday mornings. As Pope Francis reminds us, “Advent is a continuous call to hope.” May you and your family feel the hope of the Advent season!
Congratulations to Mrs. Amanda Hanson, our 1st grade teacher, and her husband Justin on the birth of baby girl Blake Ivy last week! We are excited for the new addition to the Hanson and IHM family!
The substitute teaching shortage is affecting IHM, and I am still looking for a long-term sub for Mrs. Hanson’s maternity leave. In the meantime, I will be acting as the 1st grade teacher, so please be patient as my administrative duties may take a back-seat to the needs of the 1st grade students! If you know a great teacher who would like to be a substitute in our wonderful school, have them contact me!
Report Cards for Grades ECE and K-8 are available today! ECE will have paper reports in your child’s backpack. Grades K-8, log into your FACTs Family Portal to view the report cards (check after 5:00 pm tonight). Mrs. Meiller will also email a copy to your email address.
After hearing some parent concerns, I would like to ask that parents parking in the parking lot after school (not using the pick up line) please use the Shore Acres entrance behind the school to enter the parking lot. Also, parents leaving the pick up line exiting the school ground should use the Shore Acres exit (instead of Schofield). There have been a couple of close calls of vehicles passing the line of cars waiting to pick up in order to enter the parking lot, and we would like to keep everyone safe and avoid accidents. Thank you!
Rather than a live performance and all of the complications that entails, Mrs. Binzak will be putting together a video performance of the IHM students for our Christmas Concert this year. We will share it in the last week before vacation starts. Look for it that week!
If you are still connected to the old IHM School Google calendar (the old calendar says “This calendar is no longer being updated”), there is an easy way to find the new calendar from your computer: go to your Google calendar, hit the plus button next to “Other Calendar”, click Subscribe to Calendar, and search for ihmcalendarmonona@gmail.com. This should work for most desktop and laptop computers. You can also follow the link below, or look for the calendar on your FACTs Parent Portal. For your particular mobile devices you may have to search how to complete this step. The old calendar will be removed in a few weeks, so please start now!
Catholic Schools provide a firm foundation for the growth and development of your child. Pray for a year filled with faith and learning. Let us be a community of service to one another and to our world. On behalf of Fr. Chad, the teachers and staff of Immaculate Heart of Mary School, God bless you for choosing Immaculate Heart of Mary School!
God Bless, Callie Meiller, Principal
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